Modern and contemporary Argentine literature and culture; Latin American critical theory; politics of theory; theories of value and the economics of literature; cultural wars; transnational literatures and cosmopolitism.

The interaction between external (e.g., type of feedback and degree of explicitness in pedagogical interventions) and internal factors (e.g., prior language experience and aptitude) in the development of a non-primary language; Bringing the gap between research and language teaching; Assessment and placement of second and heritage language learners.